You do need a more recent version of RPM.  On our Linux RHS 4.2 machine,
we are using RPM v2.3.11 as a reference.  

regards,
henry m. pierce


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Henry M. Pierce
Research Programmer
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsbugh, PA


hmpierce_at_cs.cmu.edu	hmp_at_infomagic.com

On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 12:06:42 -0700
> From: Toshio Kuratomi <badger_at_prtr-13.ucsc.edu>
> Reply-To: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> To: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> Subject: Re: rpm doesn't work
> Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:15:37 -0400
> Resent-From: linux-coda_at_TELEMANN.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU
> 
> On Mon, 13 Apr, 1998 at 02:44:48PM -0400, thoth_at_purplefrog.com set free these words:
> > 
> >   I tried to unpack the coda RPM on my RedHat 4.1 box.  It failed miserably.
> > 
> > [root_at_frop thoth]#  rpm --install -v ~thoth/ftp/coda-debug-source-4.4.0-2.i386.rpm 
> > failed dependencies:
> >         /bin/sh   is needed by coda-debug-source-4.4.0-2
> > 
> Looks like you need a later version of rpm -- go get rpm-2.4.12 from redhat.
> 
> Also -- since (I assume) you are going to be rebuilding the source to run on
> redhat-4.1's kernel, shouldn't you be getting the .src.rpm?
> 
> -Toshio
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